<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0ce1342d-a382-4afa-8aca-a805ce312d32/F58F7C7E-C3CE-4F61-B036-FD16318761F4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1322" href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1322" style="font-size: 11px;">www.brusselsjournal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1322"><DIV class="info"><SPAN class="submitted">From the desk of <A title="View%20user%20profile." href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/paulbelien">Paul Belien</A> on Mon, 2006-09-11 00:01</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class="content"> <P>Five years ago the world changed. We were still living in Antwerp’s city center at the time and I flew the American flag from the balcony as a token of solidarity. Less than two hours later we thought it wise to take the flag in again, because immigrant youths from around the corner expressed their hostility, pointing out that they regarded flying the stars and stripes as a provocation. While we mourn the victims of 9/11 today, I am certain that in a number of European inner cities and <EM>banlieus</EM> this anniversary will be celebrated. <EM>The Economist</EM> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/06/25/whos-afraid-of-eurabia-fisking-the-economist/" set="yes">recently wrote</A> that referring to Europe as “Eurabia” is an exaggeration, but since 9/11 2001 I know it is a reality.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F58F7C7E-C3CE-4F61-B036-FD16318761F4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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